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January 2026: Congratulations Sandeep Yadav for successfully defending the open seminar.


December 2025: Congratulations Akash, Harshit, and Himanshu for successfully defending SOTA.


December 2025: Kuldeep Singh Negi successfully defended his doctoral thesis, “Deciphering Osmolyte-Protein Interaction through Associated Water Stabilization Mechanism”. Congratulations and best wishes to him.


December 2025: Congratulations Kuldeep Singh Negi, Tanmoy Khan and Pratik Sen. The work on Associated Water Stabilization Mechanism Reconciles the Enigmatic Differential Response of Proteins to a Single Osmolyte got accepted in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B.


December 2025: Congratulations Suman Bhowmik for successfully defending the open seminar.


November 2025: Tanmoy Khan successfully defended his doctoral thesis, “Critical Role of Water to Maintain Protein Stability and Activity in Hydrated Deep Eutectic Solvents and Beyond”. Congratulations and best wishes to him.


November 2025: Abhijit Dutta successfully defended his doctoral thesis, " Mechanistic investigation on photostability of colloidal 2D perovskite nanoplate against UV Irradiation and Potential Remedies. Congratulations and best wishes to him.


November 2025: Congratulations Bhupendra Singh, Shreya Ghosh, Akash Rana, Harshit Karnwal and Pratik Sen. The work on Role of associated water in stabilizing human γ‐D crystallin under crowded eye lens conditions got accepted in Protein Science.


October 2025: Congratulations Tanmoy Khan, Kuntal Debnath, Kuldeep Singh Negi and Pratik Sen. The work on Dissecting the role of substrate folding in enzymatic digestion got accepted in Biophysical Journal.


August 2025: Congratulations Patralekha Sarkar and Pratik Sen. The work on Dissecting the role of substrate folding in enzymatic digestion got accepted in Biointerphases.


August 2025: Congratulations Patralekha Sarkar and Pratik Sen. The work on Para-Substituent Effects on Interfacial Binding and Fast Hole Transfer Dynamics in CsPbBr3 Nanocrystals for Perovskite-Based Photocatalysis got accepted in ACS Applied Nano Materials.


July 2025: Congratulations Arghya Sen and Pratik Sen. The work on UV Mediated Thickness Control of Colloidal Blue-Emitting 2D CsPbBr3 Nanoplatelets got accepted in ACS Applied Nano Materials.


April 2025: Congratulations Abhijit Dutta, Suman Bhowmik, Sujit Kumar Ghosh, Vaidhyanathan Ramamurthy, and Pratik Sen. The work on Effect of Hydrogen Bonding on Ultrafast Intersystem Crossing in 7 Diethylaminothiocoumarin got accepted in The Journal of Physical Chemistry A.


April 2025: Congratulations Kuldeep S Negi for successfully defending open seminar.


February 2025: Congratulations Suman Bhowmik, Dipankar Mondal, Kiran Arora, Prakash P Neelakandan and Professor Sen. The work on Position-Dependent Modulation of Intersystem Crossing In Iodo-Functioalized Salicylideneimine-Boron Compounds got accepted in Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry.


December 2024: Congratulations Ndege Simisi Clovis, Soumya Chaudhury and Professor Sen. The work on Synergistic Chloroform–Methanol Binary Solvent Mixture Is Inherently Spatially and Dynamically Heterogeneous got accepted in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B.


December 2024: Congratulations Patralekha Sarkar, Arghya Sen, Abhijit Dutta, Rakesh Kumar and Professor Sen. The work on Pivotal Role of Binding in Ultrafast Hole Transfer from CsPbBr3 Nanocrystals to Isomeric Diaminobenzenes got accepted in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C.


December 2024: Congratulations Abhijit Dutta for successfully defending Open Seminar.


December 2024: Congratulations Tanmoy Khan for successfully defending Open Seminar.


December 2024: Arghya Sen Successfully defended his doctoral thesis, " Mechanistic investigation on photostability of colloidal 2D perovskite nanoplate against UV Irradiation and Potential Remedies " in. Congratulations and best wishes to him.


December 2024: Congratulations Tanmoy Khan, Nilimesh Das, Suman Bhowmik, Kuldeep Singh Negi and Professor Sen. The work on Critical Role of Water beyond the Media to Maintain Protein Stability and Activity in Hydrated Deep Eutectic Solvent got accepted in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B.


November 2024: Congratulations Arghya Sen, Abhijit Dutta, Abir Lal Bose and Professor Sen. The work on Oleylammonium fluoride passivated blue-emitting 2D CsPbBr 3 nanoplates with near-unity photoluminescence quantum yield: safeguarding against threats from external perturbations got accepted in Royal Society of Chemistry.


August 2024: Congratulations Arghya Sen, Priyam Karmakar, Patralekha Sarkar and Professor Sen. The work on Suppression of Thermally Assisted Photoluminescence Quenching in CsPbBr3 Nanocrystals via Surface Engineering: Implications for Optoelectronic Devices got accepted in ACS Applied Nano Materials.


August 2024: Congratulations Tanmoy Khan, Bisal Halder, Nilimesh Das and Professor Sen. The work on Role of Associated Water Dynamics on Protein Stability and Activity in Crowded Milieu got accepted in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B.


August 2024: Arghya Sen successfully submitted his thesis, “Mechanistic investigation on photostability of colloidal 2D perovskite nanoplate against UV Irradiation and Potential Remedies” in August 2024. Congratulations, and best wishes to him.


August 2024: Congratulations Suman Bhowmik, Abhijit Dutta, and Professor Sen. The work on Ultrafast Intersystem Crossing in Benzanthrone: Effect of Hydrogen Bonding and Viscosity got accepted in The Journal of Physical Chemistry A.


July 2024: Congratulations Abhijit Dutta, Sujit Kumar Ghosh, Satyajit Mandal, Varadharajan Srinivasan, Vaidhyanathan Ramamurthy and Professor Sen. The work on Ultrafast processes in upper excited singlet states of free and caged 7-diethylaminothiocoumarin got accepted in The Journal of Physical Chemistry A.


July 2024: Mr. Harshit Karnwal, Mr. Akash Rana, and Mr. Himanshu Singh have joined our group as doctoral students. A warm welcome to them!


June 2024: Congratulations Abhijit Dutta, Sujit Kumar Ghosh, Satyajit Mandal, Varadharajan Srinivasan, Vaidhyanathan Ramamurthy and Professor Sen. The work on Tracking heterogenous protein aggregation at nanoscale through fluorescence correlation spectroscopy got accepted in Photochemistry and Photobiology.


May 2024: Congratulations Arghya for successfully defending Open Seminar.


May 2024: Congratulations Arghya Sen, Patralekha Sarkar and Professor Sen. The work on Evidence of Short-Lived High-Energy Emissive State and Triplet Character of the Self-Trapped Exciton in Cs3Cu2I5 Perovskite got accepted in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.


April 2024: Congratulations Arghya Sen, Patralekha Sarkar and Professor Sen. The work on Enhanced Photostability of the Colloidal Ruddlesden–Popper Perovskite Nanoplate through 4-Fluorobenzylammonium Iodide-Mediated Surface Engineering for Photoluminescent Application got accepted in ACS Applied Nano Materials.


January 2024: Congratulations Abhijit Dutta, Suman Bhowmik and Professor Sen. The work on Triplet state photophysics of bis (dimethylphenanthroline) copper (I) might involve volume-changing molecular motion: Ultrafast absorption and emission studies got accepted in Chemical Physics Letters.


January 2024: Dipankar Mondal have joined our group as doctoral students. A warm welcome of him!